Menus

Gnome-terminal provides a number of control features via the main menu, and a pop-up menu available by pressing the right mouse button while holding the CTRL key. (It is sometimes not necessary to hold down the CTRL key to get the pop-up menu, but do not assume this is always so.)

File menu

New terminal

Create a new terminal. This is an efficient way to create multiple terminals, as they are all processed by the same program and PID. Each starts its own sub-shell process however.

Hide menubar

Hides the main menu bar on the terminal, creating a neater, smaller terminal. The menu bar can be retrieved using the control menu, which can be displayed by holding down the CTRL key, and pressing the right mouse button.

Close terminal

Closes the current terminal. It also closes any other terminals opened via the command line in that terminal. If this is the last terminal to be closed, then the gnome-terminal program exits.

Edit menu

Paste

Pastes the current selection or clipboard into the terminal. This can also be achieved using the middle mouse button.

Settings menu

Preferences ...

Displays the preferences dialogue. The settings which can be controlled from this dialogue are described in the config section.

Reset Terminal

Resets the terminal parameters. This will not clear the screen or move the cursor, but any subsequent terminal output will be reset to the default font and attributes.

Reset and Clear

Resets the terminal parameters, also clearing the screen. All character fonts and attributes are reset.

Colour selector ...

Can be used to drag-and-drop colours into the terminal. Refer to the colour selector description.

Help menu

GNOME terminal users guide ...

How to get to this document from within gnome-terminal.

About ...

A little bit of kudos for all of the very hard working guys who made it all possible.

Pop-up menu

The pop-up control menu can be shown by pressing the right mouse button with the CTRL key depressed. It is provided as a simple short-cut to the main menu, or for when the main menu is hidden. The following items are available:

New terminal ...

Creates a new terminal window.

Preferences ...

Displays the preferences dialogue.

Hide/Show menubar

Either hide or show the main menu bar, depending on its current state.

Reset terminal

Resets the terminal attributes without clearing the screen.

Reset and Clear

Resets the terminal attributes and clears the screen.

Open in browser

If the mouse pointer was over a URL when the popup menu is invoked, then this option is available to launch a browser to view the URL. Using CTRL-left mouse button is a shortcut for this menu item.